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I like the look at the GT500 vent. Let me know if you don't want yours anymore and I'll buy it off you.

If not, I'll try and brave the local Ford dealer here in a few weeks.

-Duncan

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Originally Posted by Patrick Olsen

Sounds like a candidate for some safety lock wire to keep that from happening again!

I could use something like that on my Mustang. Unfortunately, it doesn't even have the heater core anymore, so even with the fans I'd have no warm air to blow.

There are bazillion of louver options on Ebay, some fabbed ones like you guys used before and some OEM take-offs. I've seen punched ones like yours advertised for hundreds of dollars - ridiculous! I've got a variety of them at home that I've bought for experimentation (and never really done much with ). Turbo Lebaron, Turbo Trans Am, Tbird Turbo Coupe, '10 Mustang GT500. That last one would be great for a car with a FMIC, methinks, and can be had for under $50 shipped. Here's a good example of using it on a track-prepped Fox Mustang, has the part number listed, too.

Yeah, put some cheap cheap 235s on them as part of the sale and they'd buy them up in a heartbeat .

You must be joking, 235's don't have near enough "poke" or whatever. 215's would be a better fit.

TiC:
I am glad to see you guys pushing into another season with a mission. I am curious if the GT3788 was considered when you were choosing a new turbo and if so, why you decided not to go with it ? I am excited for the season to start, though I will likely be unable to do anything this year other than a couple of track days.

You must be joking, 235's don't have near enough "poke" or whatever. 215's would be a better fit.

TiC:
I am glad to see you guys pushing into another season with a mission. I am curious if the GT3788 was considered when you were choosing a new turbo and if so, why you decided not to go with it ? I am excited for the season to start, though I will likely be unable to do anything this year other than a couple of track days.

I wish you guys the best of luck.

-Travis

On a good note, this proves that I know nothing about the hella flush stuff .

TIC, I'm assuming you did a 5x114 swap in the front to take advantage of the easy as can be swap of wheel bearing/hub on the 05+ STI knuckles? Do the rears not wear out nearly as frequently even with the 5x100s?

Since you are going with a FMIC this year, do you plan to use a reverse hood scoop or maybe a vented 2.5i flat hood, either should be a significant reducetion in front end lift/drag from the stock hood scoop?

Since you are going with a FMIC this year, do you plan to use a reverse hood scoop or maybe a vented 2.5i flat hood, either should be a significant reducetion in front end lift/drag from the stock hood scoop?

Dave

We'll stick with a WRX hood for the weight vs. the RS hood. We'll ditch the scoop and most likely do a louvered vent there.

There was an article in Eurotuner last month where an Audi time attack car actually reverted to Enkei rpf1's wheels in 17" size because they claimed the weight and inertial reductions outweighed the handling losses by going from an 18" to a 17" rim. They were running 650+ whp, so I have to wonder what they did for brakes for track days...